NAME: Ali          
SURNAME: Soltanolamaei           
NICKNAME: Soltan
DB/P: 1981. Tehran, Iran
PRO: Typographer, Researcher
E: info@psygraphy.com
Lab. Basislager. Nr.34, Zürich, Switzerland
T. +41 (0)76 574 42 55
Ali Soltanolamaei is a graphic communicator and typography award-winning, actively involved in the International Council of Design (Ico-D). His profession centers on the social and anthropological aspects of language. Biography
He is currently fully tenured in Psygraphy as a researcher and educator, with a particular focus on linguistics methodology. His pedagogical approach supports multimodality and expanded practices, challenges dogmatism and encourages openness and curiosity. Task
He has continuously shaped and reinvented the profile of his subject area by anchoring typography research and visual cultures as core study areas and by opening up the curriculum for explorative and inquiring processes. Visual metaphor
His discursive practice brings together teaching, writing, speaking, publishing and social engagement, and serves as a catalyst for prompting post-disciplinary conversations within and outside the academic sphere. AVR. Audio visual records​​​​​
He has initiated, led and participated in several third-party funded research projects concerning typography and pedagogy, including Hypertype (I tend to assume that my internal monologue speaks in words).
In particular, he is interested in marginalised and hidden narratives, practices and epistemologies, in issues of alterity, effects and imagination; and in educating for uncertain times.
Alongside his professional roles, he co-directs and co-organises cultural events related to philosophy and art. Archive Magazine (documenting individual spaces as members of a larger society).
His work is driven by a belief in transcending the confines of dichotomy, advocating for encounter and dialogue, and working towards ways of being and knowing that resonate with the complexities of our contemporary existence. Manifesto​​​​​​​